Isaiah 33:23
Your ropes are slack; they cannot secure the mast or spread the sail. Then an abundance of spoils will be divided, and even the lame will carry off plunder.
Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.
Note Thy…: or, They have forsaken thy tacklings
Your rigging is untied. They couldn’t strengthen the foot of their mast. They couldn’t spread the sail. Then the prey of a great plunder was divided. The lame took the prey.
Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not strengthen the foot of their mast, they could not spread the sail: then was the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame took the prey.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Thy tacklings are loosed
- or, they have forsaken thytacklings.
- Isaiah 33:21; Ezekiel 27:26–34; Acts 27:19, 30–32, 40, 41
- then
- Isaiah 33:1, 4; 2 Chronicles 20:25
- the lame
- 1 Samuel 30:10, 22–24; 2 Kings 7:8; Psalm 68:12; 1 Corinthians 1:27